{"id":70641,"date":"2016-02-13T11:17:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T16:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=70641"},"modified":"2016-02-13T11:17:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T16:17:37","slug":"70641","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/02\/13\/70641\/","title":{"rendered":"Comelec to deactivate VCMS&#8217; tape receipts"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70642\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70642\" style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/vote-counting-machine-comelec-election.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70642\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70642\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/vote-counting-machine-comelec-election.jpg\" alt=\"Vote counting machine used in Comelec's mock election in February 13. (Photo courtesy of the official Twitter account of Comelec)\" width=\"465\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/vote-counting-machine-comelec-election.jpg 465w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/vote-counting-machine-comelec-election-247x300.jpg 247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vote counting machine (VCM) used in Comelec&#8217;s mock election in February 13.<br \/>(Photo courtesy of the<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/COMELEC\" target=\"_blank\"> official Twitter account of Comelec<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will no longer activate the tape receipt, or the voter verified paper audit trail (VVPAT), one of the four security requirements of the automated election system (AES) in the forthcoming polls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not activate the tape receipt. Ang sabi ko nga there are more disadvantages than advantages,\u201d he said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that they were looking at activating the on-screen verification of votes cast in the Vote Count Machines (VCMs).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAng tinitingnan namin \u2018yong screen verification. Ang problema ng screen \u2018yong oras eh. Tapos yong privacy. Nasisilip,\u201d Bautista said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if it is safe to say that they will activate on-screen verification program? He said, \u201cHindi pa but I can tell that we will not activate the receipt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The poll body chief added, \u201c\u2019Yung sa screen (verification) open pa. In fact nagkaroon na ng preliminary discussion on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The other three security features of the VCMs are: the UV (ultraviolet) lamps, digital signatures of the Board of Election Inspectors (BEIs), and an earlier review of the source code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will no longer activate the tape receipt, or the voter verified paper audit trail (VVPAT), &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-70641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-original","mauthors-ferdinand-g-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}